Review: “The New Bay Bridge” group exhibition at Vessel Gallery, Oakland
In case you haven’t noticed, there is a new bridge in town. “The New Bay Bridge” at Vessel Gallery, Oakland, features the work of two …
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“This Is The Sound of Someone Losing the Plot” group exhibition at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco. Curated by Anthony Discenza.
“This Is The Sound of Someone Losing the Plot” opens the new Utah St. Catharine Clark Gallery with a show curated by Anthony Discenza entirely …
Review: “Febreze” group exhibition at Kinman Gallery, London.
“Pull your socks up – To make an effort to improve your work or behaviour because it is not good enough.” This idiom …
Review: “Voulkos, Inspired” group show at Berkeley Central Arts Passage. A Kala Art Institute offsite project exhibition.
Entering a piece of video art in the middle is like meeting a friend for the first time, it is almost immediately apparent if it …
Review: “Heightened Subjectivity” group exhibition at Interface Gallery, Oakland
“Heightened Subjectivity” is a group show at Interface Gallery in Oakland featuring recent work by Claire Colette, Teresa Baker and Lana Williams. Through titles that …
Review: “The Mutant and the Melody” solo exhibition by Joel Dean at Jancar Jones Gallery, Los Angeles.
As a spectator entering a gallery or museum, anticipation of aesthetic elation is internalized. Once upon these works, viewing an interesting something or other …
Review: Uri Tzaig’s “Sustainable Art” exhibition at refusalon, San Francisco
Uri Tzaig “Sustainable Art” refusalon JW Marriott San Francisco Union Square 500 Post Street San Francisco, California By John Held, Jr. …
A Richard Berger Appreciation
A couple things lately have made me think of Richard Berger, not the least of which was seeing one of his sculptures from …
Review: “The Outside World” by Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
When Richard Learoyd describes his experiments with the camera obscura as “an anti-digital therapy,” he sets himself opposite the compulsive image takers and re-takers. This …
Review: SECA AWARD Part 1 – Zarouhie Abdalian and Josh Faught
The winners of this year’s SFMOMA SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art) Award are Josh Faught, Jonn Herschend, Zarouhie Abdalian and David Wilson. …
Review: Yang Fudong’s “Estranged Paradise” at the Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive
Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993-2013 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive August 21 – December 8, 2013 As the Berkeley Art Museum …
Art as Case Study 1: “Fault Lines” at Kadist.
Feature by Peter Dobey All too often I encounter visual art that has been butchered by theoretical exposition. A particularly egregious variety of …
Review: Sarah Williams solo exhibition at George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles
Among some of the works currently on view at George Billis Gallery are Sarah Williams’s oil paintings on panels. Characteristically, each is of modest …
Review: Ryan McGinley’s “Yearbook” solo exhibition at Ratio 3, San Francisco
The studio portraits in Ryan McGinley’s solo exhibition “Yearbook” at Ratio 3 Gallery are irreverent and sexy. They build on the artist’s decade-long tradition …
Review: Ward Schumaker’s “YEARS OF PRETTY: Selections from Ten Years of Work” at Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco
The title “Reason Drifts Far From The Shore” is printed in black acrylic on a grey background, centered on the left side of the 48 …
Review: “Open Cube” curated by Adriano Pedrose at White Cube, Masons Yard in London
I’m not sure whether to be happy or sad that I am getting older within the arts. On one hand I feel like …
Review: Jillian McDonald’s “Valley of the Deer,” at the Ontario College of Art & Design
Here’s a scary movie to play at your avant-garde haunted house. Jillian McDonald’s “Valley of the Deer,” recently shown at Ontario College of Art …
Review: “Zwischerliecht” group exhibition at LxWxH Gallery, Seattle
LxWxHx gallery (pronounced Length Width Height, but you probably already gathered that) in Seattle’s isolated Georgetown neighborhood boasts a fitting sense of aloofness, considering …
Review: “Isaac Layman: Funeral” and “Michael Lazarus: Recent Works” at Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Two mini exhibitions are currently on view at Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon. Nestled in the poetically named Pearl District amongst other galleries, the …
The Mighty Languish, The Forgotten Rise
“The Worlds of Bernice Bing” Produced and directed by Madeleine Lim Co-Producer and Project Director, Jennifer Banta Yoshida Presented by the Asian American Women Artists …